Willie Tomg posted:

for all the talk of how racist and barbarous the usa is, its really really really really funny to live on a block in texas alongside most latin american ethnicities that exist, north africans, caribs, indians, pakistanis, sudanese, ghanans, bangladeshis, burmese, and regular-rear end black americans


and then continental europe is having an existential freakout over maybe having a dark-skinned neighbor one day.

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Starting at the age of 1, “ghetto children” must be separated from their families for at least 25 hours a week, not including nap time, for mandatory instruction in “Danish values,” including the traditions of Christmas and Easter, and Danish language. Noncompliance could result in a stoppage of welfare payments. Other Danish citizens are free to choose whether to enroll children in preschool up to the age of six.

Denmark’s government is introducing a new set of laws to regulate life in 25 low-income and heavily Muslim enclaves, saying that if families there do not willingly merge into the country’s mainstream, they should be compelled.

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Politicians’ description of the ghettos has become increasingly sinister. In his annual New Year’s speech, Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen warned that ghettos could “reach out their tentacles onto the streets” by spreading violence, and that because of ghettos, “cracks have appeared on the map of Denmark.” Politicians who once used the word “integration” now call frankly for “assimilation.”

That tough approach is embodied in the “ghetto package.” Of 22 proposals presented by the government in early March, most have been agreed upon by a parliamentary majority, and more will be subject to a vote in the fall.

Some are punitive: One measure under consideration would allow courts to double the punishment for certain crimes if they are committed in one of the 25 neighborhoods classified as ghettos, based on residents’ income, employment status, education levels, number of criminal convictions and “non-Western background.” Another would impose a four-year prison sentence on immigrant parents who force their children to make extended visits to their country of origin — described here as “re-education trips” —in that way damaging their “schooling, language and well-being.” Another would allow local authorities to increase their monitoring and surveillance of “ghetto” families.

Some proposals have been rejected as too radical, like one from the far-right Danish People’s Party that would confine “ghetto children” to their homes after 8 p.m. (Challenged on how this would be enforced, Martin Henriksen, the chairman of Parliament’s integration committee, suggested in earnest that young people in these areas could be fitted with electronic ankle bracelets.)

Kurtofan posted:

Next year's european elections are going to be something

Badger of Basra posted:

so italy says vaccines are optional for kids now?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/07/health/italy-anti-vaccine-law-measles-intl/index.html

twoday posted:

:angryitalianchef:

Bonfire Lit posted:

hackbunny posted:

A Dees image is a very, very odd choice, and "Svegliamoci dal torpore!" while a perfectly grammatically correct sentence, sounds quite "off". This is almost certainly foreign propaganda

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

note if you talk about the brits in here you will be probated. this thread respects the democratic will of the british people to brexit

twoday posted:

I find the Visegrad Group to be an interesting phenomenon within the EU in recent years. Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, and Slovakia created the V4 as an initiative to work more closely on matters of defense, economics, etc. The countries share some cultural heritage and currently have governments with similar political beliefs in power (which I am not a fan of). Functioning as a cohesive clique within the EU they have a lot more influence and are more capable of achieving common goals than they would have as isolated countries. It echoes the strategy of the Benelux taken long ago. I think such groupings are a good way to decentralize power within the EU, and counterbalance excessive German influence, while also allowing for a greater degree of sovereignty than say the hypothetical reestablishment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire as an EU member state. It is probably a better way for these countries to achieve their goals than in a totally federal europe or an "every man for himself" Europe. Not sure to what degree this can be or already is implemented in other parts of Europe, though I believe the Scandanavians are doing something similar to a lesser degree.

twoday posted:

Nevertheless projects such as the Polish anime tank continue to de developed

https://twitter.com/Bellagiotime/status/1030638285331333122?s=19

twoday posted:

https://twitter.com/CyprusToday/status/1036878599142481921?s=20

I guess in the new technocracy you will have to bribe programmers instead of officials

mila kunis posted:

whats the government's economic policies like?

Ghost Leviathan posted:

I haven't been keeping up with Macron as much as I'd like, having failed French in school, but he really seems like a peek into the universe where Hillary won.

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The board of the Italian state broadcaster, Rai, has for a second time nominated Marcello Foa, a Eurosceptic journalist who has often shared stories proved to be fake, to be its president.

The nomination will now be put to the parliamentary committee that oversees Rai on Tuesday, where support for Foa’s candidacy is believed to be building.

Foa, who also holds anti-gay, anti-immigration, anti-vaccine and pro-Russia views, has been pushed for the role by the governing coalition of the far-right League and the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S).

The M5S leader, Luigi Di Maio, said Foa would help purge the “parasites” installed by mainstream parties who had led Rai for decades.

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There is speculation that Berlusconi’s new stance is linked to his business interests. He owns the rival media company Mediaset, and Foa was a journalist at his newspaper, Il Giornale.

“Foa is a Berlusconi man, he worked for him … and now that Berlusconi is reviving Forza Italia [within the centre-right alliance] it works for him,” said a media industry source. “It will be like an extension of his other media interests – with Foa, Berlusconi can try to influence Rai.”

The source said Foa’s appointment was likely to be detrimental for journalism in Italy. “Foa is a guy who is really in love with the Catholic religion, he hates the EU and loves Russia and Putin, so all of these are red signals that it will be bad for information.”

Foa has also repeatedly criticised the Italian president, Sergio Mattarella. When Foa was first mooted for the Rai role, the journalists’ unions FNSI and Usigrai described the potential appointment as “a fatal blow to the autonomy and independence of the public service”.

Fake stories shared by Foa on social media have included one during the 2016 US presidential election campaign about Hillary Clinton participating in satanic dinners and another about a supposed plan to overthrow Donald Trump.

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

even greenwald is falling into the trap where its macron vs the far right. melenchon is the most popular pol in france atm

Electronico6 posted:

the nationalist, eurosceptic, and anti-globalist party, the Portuguese Communist Party

hackbunny posted:

I don't think you "get" Italy's new government. It's pure, unfiltered volk and, just like a hundred years ago, we might be breaking new and exciting ground in authoritarianism

Joseance posted:

there are so many good names for italy leaving the EU

Kurtofan posted:

Whoever coined Brexit deserves death

twoday posted:

https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1066202230464921600?s=19

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfCiDAx9ntE

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An Italian prosecutor on Tuesday took the unusual step of criticizing the interior minister, claiming one of his tweets about "Nigerian mafia arrests" was compromising a police operation.

Anti-immigration Salvini, who is also deputy prime minister and a big user of social media, tweeted about a swoop on the Italian mafia in Sicily and immediately afterwards about the "arrest in Turin of 15 other Nigerian mafia members".

However, the chief prosecutor in the northern city, Armando Spataro, said in a statement that while there were 15 arrest warrants, they were not all for mafia-related crimes and, most notably, not all the suspects had yet been arrested.

The Puppet Master posted:

they are going to spend 115 million euros to just be needlessly cruel to ~100 people

you can't put a price on hate

Dawncloack posted:

Imo, next election cycle there will be 3 right wing parties of equal weighr.in parliament and they will be one of them.

That's this year. What with news cycle after news cycle centering on migrants.

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/1091046211505872896

Byolante posted:

All the Nazis are in crimea my dude. They don't vote in Ukrainian elections.